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Acclaimed on first publication and today considered one of the defining works of the sociology, The Presentation of the Self…

The prisoner's remand cell becomes the scene of a surreal mental torture. This is an examination of the suffering humans can…

• Počet stran 720
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2003

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate…

Available in time to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, this biography introduces youngsters to Neil…

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• Počet stran 134

Autor : Thomas Morus, Popis : In Utopia Thomas More painted a fantastical picture of a distant island where society is…

A collection of short stories covering the length of the author's writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly…

A collection of stories of the author whose stories - whether they are set in Italy, Greece, India, or in England itself -…

Explores the author's Oxford youth, his unexpected conversion, his literary enthusiasms (from P G Wodehouse to Graham…

• Rok vydání 1912

A defiant critique of American capitalism §A MASTER OF GRITTY NATURALISM, Theodore Dreiser explores the corruption of the…

In Chronoclasm a man is pursued by his own future. We meet a robot with an overactive compassion circuit. And what happens…

Jael 97 is an Alpha. Deemed over-privileged for her beauty, she is compelled to report to the Ministry of Facial Justice,…

The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under the…

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'It will be read and re-read not as a treatise but as a story: one of the most extraordinary that has ever been written of…

Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is asked to visit Zurich, to clean the work of an Old Master for a millionaire…

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• Počet stran 195
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2017

Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson this autumn with a collection of her finest, darkest short stories,…

• Počet stran 480
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• Rok vydání 2023

On an epic voyage far beyond the Republic, the Jedi will confront their most extraordinary enemy-and test the limits of…

With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the…

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Kniha 9780241475270 Good Shepherd C.S. Forester…

From the world-renowned physicist and bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos, a captivating…

One of Thailand's best-known and most highly regarded novels, portraying the romance of a young Thai man and a married older…

• Počet stran 352
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• Rok vydání 2022

Sisterhood Classics - classic female writers, iconic female characters, superb female designers. After losing her parents,…

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• Rok vydání 2022

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• Rok vydání 2022

One of the most widely-read and enjoyed of all Victorian novels, and one of the greatest tales of a woman's struggle for…

These pieces show the range of Waugh's skills: Mr Loveday's Little Outing; Cruise; Period Piece; On Guard; An Englishman's…

• Rok vydání 2000

Explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. Dealing with the motivations and emotions of the…

Dickens' sense of comedy and concern with the human psyche are evident in tales of the supernatural, impressionistic…

Presents an account of life in turn-of-the-century Russia. Through the workaday world of a rural dairyman, his grit, wit,…

From the exuberant Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend to the Miller's worldly, ribald farce, this title includes tales which…

When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his hands.…

• Rok vydání 2014

Your anguish is the anguish of a boy whose chocolate has been thrown away, whose remote controls are out of batteries, whose…

• Rok vydání 2009

Victor, a New York cop nearing retirement, moves among furniture in the disused attic of a house marked for demolition.…

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Jazyk: Angličtina, Vazba: Brožovaná, Počet stran: 320, Nakladatelství: Penguin Books, Autor: Hilary Jacobs Hendel, ISBN-13:…

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• Počet stran 272

Autor : E. H. Carr, Druh sortimentu : Kniha, Název : What is History?, Jazyk : Angličtina, Počet stran : 272…

In 1791, inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution, the slaves of San Domingo rose in revolt. Despite invasion by a…

'The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power - which groups have it and which do not' Beyond…

• Počet stran 288
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2023

A new translation of Simone Weil's best-known work: a political, philosophical and spiritual treatise on what human life…

• Brožovaná
• Počet stran 384
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2024

'The most exciting book I have ever read ... a feverish, fascinating novel' Antony Beevor, Sunday Telegraph'I can't take any…